In your first comment, Wayne, on meeting the subsidies of the United States or Europe or whatever it is, certainly I sense your frustration, and you would sense it with every farmer, that Canada is being the boy scout. With every government I can remember, that's more or less what we've been. We've always said we can't match the treasury of the United States or Europe, and we just won't go there.
Could we have another pillar—I would suggest another pillar—under the APF that has something to do with international trade, and in it have somewhat of a grandfathering clause, or a mechanism whereby we could look at international trade and how it affects agriculture, and use that as the vehicle to address it? That would seem to be a better fit to me. It keeps it focused on looking at that effect. This may have some validity to it; it would focus it. Right now, the issue gets spread out, but the issue is everywhere; it's in every commodity. We tend to pigeonhole each other and say, “Well, that's an issue for you, but not for me.” Maybe if we had a pillar, we could look at it that way.
As to changing how the subsidies work, in the United States we're now going to see the American subsidies not be within their farm plan. It's going to be an environmental subsidy, because it's going to go into ethanol. That doesn't reduce the price of the product on the world market.
It's a great way to do it. Europe has always put their money right in the farmer's pocket. It doesn't affect the trade and the commodity prices; they do it a different way, find a different mechanism, if they want to support farmers. If we want to support farmers but not specifically tied to the commodity, that's a lot more palatable to me. It allows the market to give me my money.
Will crop insurance be or not be green? It will only not be green if we can't justify how we reached the figure. If there's a way of...not Olympic averaging or something like that, but finding a way to use historical figures to achieve it, whether it's an acceleration factor.... It has to be something you can reasonably quantify. I don't think crop insurance would be that big a manipulation to figure out.
I hope that answers your question.